Books like The Sixth Form at St. Clare's

Although I have unfortunately found there to be a number of what I would call both time/place and vernacular based anachronisms in Pamela Cox’s third continuance of Enid Blyton’s St. Clare’s series, in her The Sixth Form at St. Clare’s (with for example the girls often drinking coffee instead of tea and using modern era slang words such as cuppa and bushed) and while the entire Priscilla Parsons scenario is really much much too one-sided and Priscilla just too annoyingly and stereotypically horridly vicious (although with this, Pamela Cox is actually following rather closely in Enid Blyton’s own footsteps, as in the original St. Clare’s novels there actually also do exist quite a number of totally vile and unredeemable school girls, villains so disgustingly terrible that they are indeed more like eponymous monsters), from the three Pamela Cox St. Clare’s continuations, The Sixth Form at St. Clare’s has definitely been the most personally enjoyable and also the most realistic, as for the most part, Pamela Cox has successfully captured the personalities of the recurring St. Clare’s characters, has depicted the O’Sullivan twins (who are now joint head girls), as well as Hilary, Janet, Carlotta, Claudine, Doris (and yes, even Angela and Alison) as they have been shown under and from Enid Blyton’s pen. And albeit that the scenario with the first form having another set of identical twins does feel just a trifle too forced and tacked on (and really for no good reason in my opinion either, as the first form twins and their exploits and antics really do nothing much to actually move along the plot line of The Sixth Form at St. Clare’s), for the most part I have most definitely much enjoyed Pamela Cox’s narrative as a generally pretty decent and successful conclusion to the St. Clare’s series (with Pat, Isabel and their classmates in the sixth form and with Hilary then leaving after the first term to meet up with her parents in India). And yes indeed, I am also and equally so so so glad that unlike in Germany (where there have been at least 30 odd anonymous, read ghost written and often also really quite strange and flabbergasting St. Clare’s perpetuations), in the United Kingdom, in the English speaking world, there have thankfully only been three (authored by Pamela Cox) continuances, and also realistically ending when the St. Clare’s girls are in their last terms of school, are in the sixth and as such the final form.